PEOPLE
CM Gaonkar, CFO of D-Link India, talks about his journey (so far)
‘Dedicated’, ‘Dreamer’, ‘Determined’, and ‘Dependable’ are some of the many qualities that characterise CM Gaonkar, Chief Financial Officer of D-Link India. Mr Gaonkar believes that to be a successful leader...
INSIGHT
Online commerce in India has tripled in the last five years, to USD 35 billion, and by 2026, the government expects it to top USD 200 billion. Fuelling this growth are rising smartphone penetration, cheap and fast data and attractive online prices.
Over 150 Chief Executive Officers and Chief Financial Officers responded to our quarterly. BCPI survey, which was run in early April, 2019
Think Tank
In conversation with Sridhar Narayan, Managing Director and Head of Global Markets, HSBC India
According to economic theory, a freely-traded currency will move in line with inflation-adjusted growth differentials, or more simply, interest-rate differentials. This has indeed been the case for India....
In conversation with Sanjay Mehta, Senior Advisor, KPMG
As a concept, Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has been around in some form just as long as business itself has existed. After all, managing risk is fundamental to any firm’s survival...
In conversation with Hariharan Madhavan, Group CFO, CK Birla Group, and Sameer Zutshi, CFO Hewlett Packard India
Traditionally, HR has been concerned with people management while Finance delves into numbers and spreadsheets. Over the years, both have come to recognise and appreciate each other’s imperatives and constraints...
In conversation with Ramesh Venkat, Founder and Managing Partner, Fairwinds Asset Managers
The present state of Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in India has been shaped by asset-liability mismatches, deteriorating asset quality and a system-wide liquidity squeeze...
In conversation with Anish Shah - Group President (Strategy) – Mahindra Group
The digital age is overwhelming in the scope of change it is engendering. That change is silent, and it is fast. It has overtaken how we live and is transforming how we work. The hype around disruption is often focused on a few...
Sanjeev Jha, CFO, India for Kelly Services
AI has been in the news for many a reason, not always the happy kind, but always engaging. While some believe it is over-hyped and others disruptive, if you believe in numbers you cannot ignore the phenomenon...
Schneider Electric is a widely-diversified business that, over the last decade, has grown strongly through multiple acquisitions, both global and domestic. Sugata Sircar, its CFO and Country Finance Partner, changed the structure of the Finance organisation to enable true business partnership, with Finance team members identifying the drivers...
In a paper entitled Changing Tides (October 2018), I argued that there were discouraging pointers about the United States economy and prospects of a slip into recession by the end of 2020 were worryingly high.